August 11 will officially commemorate the 50-year anniversary of hip-hop. But, while this specific date is in remembrance of when DJ Kool Herc hosted his “Back To School Jam” in the South Bronx in ...

How much do you really know West Coast hip-hop? It’s not enough to just know the basics. Anyone could listen to Kendrick Lamar and get it. N.W.A, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube. That’s the vintage 90s ...

Get ready to see all your favorite classic hip-hop movies. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, The Criterion Channel will put on a classic hip-hop movies program. As reported by Pitchfork, ...

Hip Hop has long been a powerful force that influenced not just music, but also fashion, language, and lifestyle. This influence extends to the advertising world, where classic rap songs have been ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

These classic movies should be on any Hip Hop heads’ watchlist. Hip Hop movies have become a mainstay among lovers of the genre. Many of these projects have become responsible for pushing the genre ...

Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond “Rapper’s ...

The golden age of hip-hop is infiltrating some of TV’s most revered series of the modern era. From Nas to Wu-Tang Clan, classic rap tracks of the 1990s are soundtracking scene-stealing moments. Words: ...

The PUMA Suede has been a forever classic in the hip-hop community since the genre's inception 50 years ago. By Quincy Green Hip-hop is a revolutionary and vibrant cultural movement that strengthened ...

Admit it: there are a lot of hip-hop songs you love, but you don’t remember anything the rapper actually said. Unfortunately, there are many songs where the verses are largely placeholders to get back ...

It’s only fitting that in 2026, the world of hip-hop can still be shaken with one movement from Shawn “JAŸ-Z” Carter, as we saw recently following his industry-stirring freestyle heard at Roots Picnic ...

In the latest episode of HipHopDX‘s debate show The Bigger Picture, the three hosts gave their own spin on Pitchfork‘s recent 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far list. Kicking off the discussion, host ...